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    Donner is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located just to the northeast of the Mare Australe, behind the southeastern limb of...
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  • Look up donner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Donner may refer to: Donner (crater), a lunar crater Donner, California, an unincorporated community...
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    and rim of the crater. The crater has been burning since the 1980s. How the crater formed is unknown, but engineers ignited the crater to prevent poisonous...
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    The crater is named after Don Hendrix. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint...
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    Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical...
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  • 1,624 craters (31.2%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%)   Venerian: 900 craters (17.3%)   Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%)   Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%)...
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    Diophantus is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southwestern part of the Mare Imbrium. It was named after ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus....
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    Gardnos crater (Gardnos krateret) is a meteorite impact crater in Nesbyen municipality in Buskerud, Norway. It is located inside Meteorite Park (Meteorittparken)...
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    Picard is a lunar impact crater that lies in Mare Crisium. The crater is named for 17th century French astronomer and geodesist Jean Picard. It is the...
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    Alphonsus is an ancient impact crater on the Moon that dates from the pre-Nectarian era. (Older sources state that it is Nectarian in age. ) It is located...
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  • Thumbnail for Piccolomini (crater)
    Piccolomini is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southeastern sector of the Moon. The crater is named after 16th century Italian Archbishop...
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    is a lunar impact crater on the eastern part of the Oceanus Procellarum. It is located to the north-northwest of the flooded crater Prinz, and north-northeast...
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  • Thumbnail for Neper (crater)
    Neper is an old lunar impact crater located near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to its location the crater must be viewed during a suitable libration...
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  • Thumbnail for Clavius (crater)
    Clavius is one of the largest crater formations on the Moon and the second largest crater on the visible near side (very close in size to Deslandres)...
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  • list of craters on Europa. The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is very young, geologically speaking, and as a result there are very few craters. Furthermore...
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  • Thumbnail for Theophilus (crater)
    impact crater that lies between Sinus Asperitatis in the north and Mare Nectaris to the southeast. It partially intrudes into the comparably sized crater Cyrillus...
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  • Thumbnail for Humboldt (crater)
    Humboldt is a large lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening this formation has an extremely oblong...
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  • Thumbnail for Metius (crater)
    lunar impact crater located in the rugged highlands to the southeast of the Moon's near side. To the southwest the rim is attached to the crater Fabricius...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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  • Thumbnail for Plinius (crater)
    lunar impact crater on the border between Mare Serenitatis to the north and Mare Tranquilitatis to the south. Its diameter is 41 km. The crater is named after...
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  • Thumbnail for Plato (crater)
    Plato is a lava-filled lunar impact crater on the Moon. Its diameter is 101 km. It was named after ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It is located on the...
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    prominent lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, and can not be viewed directly from Earth. The crater was named after Arthur...
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    Rheita is a lunar impact crater located in the southwestern sector of the Moon. It was named after Czech astronomer and optician Anton Maria Schyrleus...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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  • Thumbnail for Davy (crater)
    satellite crater Davy Y to the east, a formation which contains a crater chain designated Catena Davy. To the southeast of Davy is the prominent crater Alphonsus...
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    Retrieved August 22, 2012. "Anders Donner". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 October 2019. "Donner, Anders (1854 - 1938)". National Biography...
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  • Thumbnail for Schiller (crater)
    Schiller is a lunar impact crater located in the southwestern region of the Moon's near side. The rim of Schiller has an elongated shape that is amplified...
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  • Thumbnail for Zucchius (crater)
    Zucchius is a prominent lunar impact crater located near the southwestern limb. Because of its location the crater appears oblong-shaped due to foreshortening...
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    mare. Less than a crater diameter to the north east is the crater Bowditch, and farther to the southwest is Donner. The rim of this crater has been nearly...
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  • Thumbnail for Fabricius (crater)
    impact crater that is located within the northeast part of the walled plain Janssen. Attached to the north-northwest rim is the slightly larger crater Metius...
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